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He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
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God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.
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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
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Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.
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I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.
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What we are able to judge with feeling is very little the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.
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What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.
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Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.
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